In each person's life there are always highs and lows and how we react to these moment have so much to do with the influences of family and social environment when we were young. My tale is about growth, about how much I have learnt through relationships with family, friends and co-workers.
I used Buzz and Bloom's Unmounted Stamps Pretty Things III which are both elegant and perfect for this project. For an added twist, instead of pigment ink, I used thick acrylic paint in dauber bottles and stamped the designs on transparencies. This gave the images a chalky, old style look I wanted to use for the album.
Be sure to wash the stamps throughly using a soft small brush making sure the acrylic does not dry in the grooves.
For the cover, cut out a window to fit the design on the tranparency and attach.
Continue stamping other transparencies, adding a folded strip of patterned paper on one end. I have decorated the transparency with a a cardstock tree on one page and a sentiment on another for more interest.
In between each transparency page I added a cardstock page for the journaling as well as to provide strength to the album.
Complete the album by binding the pages either by sewing or simply punch holes in the sides of the pages, then using jump rings which may be decorated with ribbons.
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